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tinned -till a few years fince, when it was fold by their 
reprefentatives, the Rev. Duke Yonge and others, to die 
father of the prefent lord Rolle. 
“ It was the ufual practice of monadic eftablifhments 
to augment their original endowments, by procuring the 
right of advowfon to adjacent pariflies, and appropriat¬ 
ing to the fupport of the monaftery the re&orial tythes ; 
prefen ting one of their own body to the care of fouls, and 
allotting the fmall tythes for the endowment of the vicar¬ 
age. The parifli of Eaft-Eudleigh, in which the hamlet 
of Salterton is fituated, being an adjoining parifli to Ot- 
terton, was obtained by the priory, either through pur- 
chafe or donation, and appropriated in the ufual manner. 
On the recent fale of an eftate in Salterton, there was 
found, among the title-deeds, a permifiion for the monks 
of Otterton to make fait at the lalt-works at Salterton. 
This document accounts for Salterton being frequented 
by ecclefiaftics, though a very fmall and obtcure hamlet, 
where no church or chapel had ever been eredfed. Con- 
nedting thefe feveral circumfiances together, there ap¬ 
pears to be confiderable ground of probability for the 
.fuggeflion that the facred purfe in queftion belonged to 
the monks of Otterton-priory; that it was brought to 
Salterton by one of the fraternity, who came to adminifter 
extreme undfion to a dying labourer employed in their 
ow'ii falt-works; and that it was either flolen by artifice, 
loft by accident, or fecreted by defign, for the purpofe of 
fecurity on fome emergent occafion. At all events, the 
difcovery of this relic is fomevvliat interefting, if the in- 
veftigalion of it has only contributed incidentally to the 
elucidation of local hiftory, or helped to afcertain the 
origin of the name of a hamlet now growing up into an 
agreeable little watering-place, which, from the falt- 
works carried on near the eftuary of the Otter, evidently 
acquired the appellation of Salterton.” 
OT'TERY, Mount-Ottery, or Upper-Ottery, a 
village in.Devonfliire, on the north-weft fide of Axminfter, 
is the place where the fpring of the Otter, or Autre, river, 
makes the firft fhow of a ftream. 
OT'TERY St. MA'RY, a market-town in the county 
of Devon, fituated near the bank of the river Otter, at 
the diftance of i2§ miles from the city of Exeter, and 
161 from London. It is a large irregularly-built town ; 
and is chiefly fupported by its manufactories of flannel, 
ferge, and other w'oollen goods. The market-day is 
Tuefday ; and Carlifle ftates that there are fifteen fairs 
annually. Wilkes gives it two market-days, Tuefday and 
Saturday; and three fairs, Tuefday fe’nnight before Eafter, 
Whit-Tuefday and the 15th of Auguft. Here is a 
grammar-fchool, formerly kept by the father of the poet 
Coleridge. ' 
Edward the Confeffor, or earl Otlio, gave the manor 
of Ottery to the cathedral of St. Mary at Rouen in Nor¬ 
mandy; but, in the reign of Edward III. the dean and 
chapter, with the king’s permifiion, fold it to Grandifon 
bifliop of Exeter, who founded a college in the parochial 
church here, “ for a warden, eight prebendaries, ten vicars, 
a marterof mufic, a mafter of grammar, two parifh-priefts, 
eight fecondaries, eight chorifters, and two clerks.” At 
thediflolution, the endowments were valued at 3381.2s. gd. 
and the fite of the college w<as granted by Henry VIII. to 
Edward earl of Elertford. The chief part of the manor 
now belongs to fir George Yonge. Some of the old col¬ 
legiate houfes are ftill to be feen. In one of thefe build¬ 
ings is a large hall, which Oliver Cromwell ufed as a con¬ 
vention-room ; and in Mill-ftreet are the remains of the 
ancient manfion of the celebrated fir Walter Raleigh. 
The iituation of this town is extremely plealant and 
healthy. The principal building is the church, which is 
very large, and has many Angularities in its conftruc- 
tion. On each fide is a fquare tower, opening into the 
body of the church, and forming two tranlepts, as in 
Exeter cathedral. The towers are furnifhed with pinna¬ 
cles and open battlements; that on the north has alfo a 
fmall.fpire. At the north-weft corner is a richly-orna¬ 
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mented chapel, built by bifhop Grandifon ; the roof of 
which is covered with highly-wrought fan-fhaped tracery. 
The interior of the church is fadly neglefted; many of 
the monuments are broken, and various parts filled up 
with lumber. The altar-fcreen is of ftone, finely carved 
into niches and tabernacle-work; but this is partly co¬ 
vered with boards, and painted. On the fouth fide of 
the communion-table are three ftone feats, riling one 
above another. Moft of the windows are narrow, and 
lancet-fhaped. 
In 1811, Ottery St. Mary contained 583 houfes, and 
2880 inhabitants. The petty fefifions for the hundred are 
held here. 
Clyft-boufe, lately built by lord Graves, occupies the 
fite of one of the ancient palaces of the bifhops of Exeter. 
It is a very noble edifice, and commands feveral rich and 
extenlive views over the adjacent country.—The other 
principal feats in this vicinity are, Cadhay, and Farirfg- 
don-houfe. The latter is a very fpacious manfion, and 
lurrounded by luxuriant plantations. Windmill-hill, 
near this houfe, is faid to have been the pofition of a Ro¬ 
man encampment. Beauties of England and Y/ales, vol. iv. 
Wilkes's Britijh DireClorij, vol. v. Appendix. Gent. Mag. 
April 1819. which contains an engraving of the church. 
OTT'FRIDE, a German benedidtine monk, who flou- 
rifhed towards the middle of the ninth century, was a 
difciple of Rabanus archbithop of Mentz, and fpent the 
greater part of his life in the monaftery of Weifiemburg, 
in Lower Allace. He diftinguifhed himfelf by the pro- 
grefs which he made in facred and profane literature, and 
wrote a variety of works in profe and verfe. He direfted 
his attention to the improvement and purification of the 
German language, then called the Teutonic ; and with this 
view drew up a Grammar, or rather perfected in part 
that commenced by the emperor Charlemagne. In order 
that the common people might be inltru&ed in the gof- 
pel-hiftory, he wrote a work in Teutonic rhymes, divided 
into five books, containing the principal circumftances 
of the life of Chrift, taken from the four evangelilts, and 
digefted into the order of time. This work was publiftied, 
but from a corrupt and mutilated copy, by Flacius 111 y- 
ricus, in 1571, Svo. A much larger, and more correct, 
copy, is preferved in the imperial library at Vienna, of 
which a particular account, together with the long pre¬ 
face, and various fpecimens of the work itfelf, are given 
by Lambecius, in his Comment, de Augulta Bibl. Csefar. 
Vindobon. vol. ii. The preface, above-mentioned, is in- 
ferted in the fixreenth volume of the Bibl. Patr. Lam¬ 
becius alfo gives an account of other works of Ottfride 
in the fame collection ; among which are, 2. Homilies, in 
Teutonic, upon the Evangelilts. 3. Paraphrafes on the 
Songs of Ifaiah, Ezekiel, &c. the Lord’s Prayer, the Song 
of Zacharias, of the Virgin Mary, and the Creed of St. 
Athanalius. Cave's HJl. Lit. vol. ii. 
OTTINGBA'H, a towm of Meckley, in Thibet: fixty- 
eight miles weft of Munnypour. 
OTT'MARSHEIM., a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Upper Rhine : eight miles north of Huningeri. 
OTTMACHAU', a town of Silefia, in the principality 
of Neifle, on the river Neifle: fix miles weft of Neifle, 
and ten fouth-eaft of Munfterberg. Lat. 50. 20. N. Ion. 
17. 2. E. 
OT'TO GUER'ICHE. See Gueriche, vol. viii. 
OTTO VE'NIUS, or Van Veen. See Venius. 
OTTOBEU'REN, a princely abbey of Germany, firft 
founded in the year 764, under the cathedral of Augf- 
burg, but at prefent exempt from all fubordination, hav¬ 
ing in the year 1626 paid to the cathedral the fum of. 
100,000 florins, in confideration of which it renounced 
all fupfemacy, jurifdiCtion, and authority, together with 
the power of impofing taxes, over it; which agreement 
was confirmed by the emperor. The convent was imme¬ 
diately under the empire; and, as fuel), uled formerly to 
befummoned to the imperial diet; but this privilege has 
for a long time been difeontinued; and, in 1802, the re¬ 
venues 
